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Project Management Introduction

In this ARE 5.0 Project Management Exam Prep course you will learn about the topics covered in the ARE 5.0 PjM exam division. A complete and comprehensive curriculum, this course will touch on each of the NCARB objectives for the ARE 5.0 Project Management Exam.

Instructor Mike Newman will discuss issues related to office standards, development of project teams and overall project control of client, fee and risk management.

When you are done with this course, you will have a thorough understanding of the content covered in the ARE 5.0 Project Management Exam including quality control, project team configuration and project scheduling.

The second exam in the NCARB series for ARE 5.0is for project management, so this is the examthat's gonna look at the sort of over arching pathof a project through a design firm.In the first one, we are looking at how a practiceis organized, which includes lots of different projectsand how they move through a firm.But this one we're really gonna focus inon a specific project.Now, clearly, there's a lot of information in thereabout which type of project and the different waysthat things can get organized, but we're gonna focus inon issues of managing the contracts.

Looking to control your relationships with the clients,the relationships with the fee, controlling risk,kind of understanding where the issues might bewhere the problem points might come.Making sure that we have a good quality control happeningso that we're always sort of following the best pathfor that particular project.And then understanding the delivery and the flowof the work, right?The sort of big picture scale of the over arching ideaof what this project needs to be able to do,and that the right things are happening at the right timesand that you're doing the work at logical moments,you're reviewing the work with the clientat the logical moments that people are being paidin a logical way.

It's just all of those kinds of organizational ideasabout how you move a project, from the beginning,all the way through to the end.